Bilge-water alarm



M a 1. (M 0 6 J E. BRUSH.

BILGE WATER ALARM- No.542,301-. PatentedJuly9,1895.

INVENTOR g lerf 371M411 BY m H/SATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EGBERT BRUSH, OF SMITHTOWN BRANCH, NEW YORK. I

Bl LG E-WATER ALARM.

SPEQIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 542,301, dated July 9, 1895.

'Application filed July 26, 1893- To all, whom it may concerns Beit known thatI, EGBERT BRUSH, of Smithtown Branch, county of Suffolk, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bilge-Water Alarms, of

I which the following is a specification.

The object of my improvement is to provide a simple andefficient bilge-water alarm, which may be adjusted at any time to allow of the accumulation of any amount of bilgewaterwithout operating to alarm the occupants of a vessel, and yet will operate to sound an alarm upon the accumulation of a dangerous quanity of bilge-water.

' I will describe a bilge-water alarm embodying my improvement, and then point out the novel features in a claim;

In the accompanying-drawings, Figure 1 is a front View, partly broken away, of a bilgewater alarm embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line 2 of Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference designate cor responding parts in both figures.

A designates a case, which may be made of wood or other suitable material, and located in any convenient part of a vessel.

' For instance, it may extend upwardly from the cabin-floor adjacent to a table.

B designates a dial fastened to the front of the case.

0 indicates an index consisting of a hand arranged to travel around the dial B, designed to indicate the depth of water in the hold. This index is affixed to a shaft journaled within the case and having affixed to it a wheel D. The wheelD engages with a bar E. Preferably'the wheel D and bar E will be provided with teeth to avoid any slipwith a rod F, which at the lower end extends down into the bottom of the. vessel and is there provided with afloat having such buoycaptains.

'ated by a spring or otherwise.

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ancy that at the rising of the bilge-water it.

here shown, made by providing one of them with a socket e capable of receiving the end of the other, and also with a clamping-screw e for clamping the two bars together.

An adjustable connection between the bar E and rod F is highly important, because a certain amount of bilge-water is requisite, and this amount varies as to different vessels or according to the views of different The adjustable connection provides for so connecting the bar that the index may point to zero with any desired amount of bilge-water in the hold of the vessel. When the bilge-water accumulates in the vessel to such a degree as to become dangerous, the rollers e at the upper end of the bar E oscillate a lever G. This lever G has a pin g, which acts as a detent to control a clock-movement H, which may be actu- The bellclapper rod is bent over the pivot-pin of the lever G and extends downward, resting upon the pin g. The pin g raises it so that the clock-movement will be free when the lever I G is carried upward by the upward movement of the bar E.

The bell I is shown as mounted outside of and above the case. The descent of the bellclapper is affected by pressing upon an arm h extending from the bell-clapper.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is In a bilge water alarm, the combination of a vertically movable rod, a float adjustable along the rod, an alarm device comprising a bell, a bell-clapper and a bell clapper rod and a pivoted arm upon which the bell clapper rod rests when not in action the pivoted arm having its free end in the path of movement of the rod and designed to throw the alarm device into action upon its upward movement substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

- EGBERT BRUSH. Witnesses:

GEORGE B. RANSOM,

THOMAS R. SMITH, 

